Back in august I wrote about a broken circle.
I finally dug a hole. He is resting in the back yard, in a sunny spot in view of the bird feeders.
I will have to get an appropriate plant or perhaps statuary.
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The truth can finally be told…
Dr. Hawass has resigned as the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
He is the unnamed person of
Snork.
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Where am I getting my info?
Some people are asking where I am getting my info.
Twitter. Easiest way is to look for me as bigjackt and then follow who I am following. (I dont retweet everything)
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/elshaheeed.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Operation-Egypt/185645434794129
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Bless his heart..
Another lesson I learned while in Cairo came from an American Ex-pat from “the south”. (Atlanta area I believe).
Apparently in her culture, you can say just about anything negative about some one as long as you preface it or follow up with “bless his|her|their heart(s)”.
He is dumber than a box of hair, bless his heart.
Bless her heart, but isn’t she just a tramp?
Invaluable code really. The Good Doctor and I have just shortened it to
Bless his/her heart
when we want to express some negative thoughts about someone.
Veerrrrry handy.
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Happy Anniversary
So it has been 1 year since we returned to he good ole USA.
Life continues. We miss some friends. We miss some of the travel. We miss some of the weather. We don’t miss the pollution (noise or air). We don’t miss the insane traffic. We miss the level of comfort our incomes gave us in Egypt.
We miss meeting some really “interesting” ex-pats.
I am apparently still good at pointless rambling though..
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Where to?
We are trying to plan a short vacation (1 week or so) on the cheap.
Work is crazy busy, so getting away for longer is hard.
2 (or so) years ago we had a vacation coming up and I wanted to be able to
see where we could travel to for about $X from Cairo.
I wanted a tool that would let me put in a departure point and enter in an amount and have it give me a list of fares.
There was nothing like that at the time.
There is now.
http://www.kayak.com/explore
Fun to play with
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Yeah, kinda like that…
A quote from a book I read recently titled:
The Sex Lives of Cannibals
“The foreigners one meets tend to live life in a vivid and eccentric sort of way, and when you listen to their tales of high adventure in the South Seas, you find that you are subsequently ruined from a conversational point of view, that you can no longer even pretend to be remotely interested in someone’s trip to the mall, or their thoughts about the stock market, or their opinions about the relative merit of a football player, and soon you will be branded as aloof, simply because once, on a faraway island, you heard some pretty good stories.”
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El Koshary
Stolen from another blog I read, Egypt’s version of “The Onion”.
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Flying
Tonight I get on a plane to NYC. This is the first time I have flown domestically in 3+ years.
And it is the first flight since we arrived back in the US in July.
…. that is 5 months since our last flight.
In 3 years in Egypt I am pretty sure we never went that long between flights.
We are doing something wrong..
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Fascinating vs Charming
A friend of ours states that the equation for a successful social gathering involves the correct ratio of “fascinating” people to “charming” people.
Fascinating people are the folks that have great stories and love to tell them.
Charming people are the folks that listen, with pithy commentary such as “oooh. really?”, “that’s hilarious” and the ever popular “wow”
I trust you get the idea.
Since we have been back in the US, we find ourselves being fascinating far more often than charming.
Not sure what to do about that.